Delivering sheep

Veteran readers of this blog know what firm believers we are in using jugs to house our Soay ewes with their newborn lambs. The first couple of years we made jugs from our Shaul panels and that was nice, but the lambs sometimes crawled through and wandered off. So Steve and Shawn designed wood-sided jugs […]

When last we met, I promised to discuss the logistics of shipping Soay sheep cross-country and share with you the personal satisfaction of working with the recipients of the airborne sheep to make it happen. Business first and then the human side of things. You probably will not be surprised to learn that air-shipping Soay […]

It is common knowledge among Soay shepherds that finding equipment for our diminutive animals can be a challenge: standard ID tags swamp our lambs’ ears; even our largest ewes get lost in full-sized sheep chairs; 4×4 mesh panels are a hazard, rather than a protection. But there is one perfectly-sized category of equipment for Soay […]